Very Funny, Elizabeth!

It's a shame Valerie Tripp seems to have lost her mind for this go round, because this Elizabeth? Is nothing like the Elizabeth seen in any of the other Felicity books. It's one of the few times I should have taken one look at the cover, noted how much I didn't like it, and stayed far, far away.

This companion book to the Felicity series features Felicity's best friend, Elizabeth Cole, an English girl from a prominent Loyalist family. The girls' favorite pastime is teasing Elizabeth's annoying sister, Annabelle. When Annabelle becomes engaged, Felicity and Elizabeth prove that they are the merriest mischief-makers in Virginia. The book includes a nonfiction "Looking Back" essay focusing on courtship and marriage customs of the eighteenth century.

Set in the winter of 1775, this story features Felicity's best friend, Elizabeth Cole, who loves to play pranks on her older sister Annabelle. When Annabelle is courted by an English nobleman, she and Elizabeth are given etiquette lessons. But Elizabeth's pranks quickly backfire on her.

Elizabeth Cole and her best friend, Felicity, are “the merriest girls in Virginia”—at lest that’s what Felicity’s father calls them. The merry friends think it’s very funny to play tricks on Elizabeth’s snobby older sister, Annabelle. When Annabelle Bananabelle becomes engaged, Elizabeth and Felicity’s mischief heats up—until Elizabeth finds herself in big trouble! Can the girls find a way to cool things down?

A review by Ashlyn: I think they played really good pranks on Annabelle and I couldn't stop reading it because it was such a good book. It was hard to put it down.

Elizabeth and Felicity have a lot of fun playing tricks on Annabelle, but Elizabeth says it is just to show Annabelle how silly she acts. When Annabelle gets engaged to an English Lord, Elizabeth is upset by how little character he has, and how completely bossy his older sister is. She tries to show Annabelle with tricks, but her plan backfires and she is told that she must go back to England. Annabelle does, however, come to her senses, and breaks off the engagement with the young lord who has decided to fight for England after talking with Ben.